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... that Trump is directly connected to Russia? Source: Any London Street map, or Google Maps, also mentioned here

Comment: The hook plays on the tendency in US English to drop the "street" qualifiers (cf: Haight-Ashbury) to be grammatically correct.

Created by Edwardx (talk) and Philafrenzy (talk). Nominated by Ritchie333 (talk) at 14:20, 9 January 2018 (UTC).

Brilliant hook, which meets the length requirement. Accepting subscription-based source on good faith. ceranthor 16:58, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

I tried to think of something like ... that Trump's path to King runs through Russia, but I couldn't make it work and anyway there's no way to top the original hook. I bow down to its author. When it appears, beware of fools looking for excuses to pull it. E Eng 18:26, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
I remember an Arbcom case that resulted from a “joke” about Trump. I would ask the nominator to rethink this. Mr Ernie (talk) 18:54, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Wow! That was fast! E Eng 19:52, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

"In authoritarian countries, creators of artworks may remove material that their government might find controversial". Is that what we've been reduced to? —David Eppstein (talk) 20:07, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

For the faint of heart, or those thinking of ArbCom, or whatever, I'll offer:

ALT 1 ... that Trump Street is directly connected to Russia Row?

It's still funny this way, and all I did was un-pipe the links. --Tryptofish (talk) 23:58, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

That's about 20% as funny. Who asked you, anyway? E Eng 00:26, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

No, it's 30%. And for those who don't know, EEng and I often joke with one another. --Tryptofish (talk) 00:40, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, I was just rushing back to add ^[FBDB]. E Eng 00:50, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Wait! I've got it!

ALT2 ... that Trump runs away from Russia but is directly connected to it?

With any luck we'll get our own tweet: "Failing Wikipedia, with its fake news..." Not a big problem, but some of the stuff at the end is sourced to non-RS websites and probably needs to go. E Eng 10:22, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

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 ::::Yeah, I was just rushing back to add {{fbdb}}. [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color: red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color: blue;">Eng</b>]] 00:50, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 *Wait! I've got it!
-::'''ALT2''' ... that '''[[Trump Street|Trump]]''' runs away from [[Russia Row|Russia]], but is directly connected to it?
+::'''ALT2''' ... that '''[[Trump Street|Trump]]''' runs away from [[Russia Row|Russia]] but is directly connected to it?
-:Not a big problem, but some of the stuff at the end is sourced to non-RS websites and probably needs to go. [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color: red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color: blue;">Eng</b>]] 10:22, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
+:With any luck we'll get our own tweet: "Failing Wikipedia, with its fake news..." Not a big problem, but some of the stuff at the end is sourced to non-RS websites and probably needs to go. [[User:EEng#s|<b style="color: red;">E</b>]][[User talk:EEng#s|<b style="color: blue;">Eng</b>]] 10:22, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
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